A 17-year-old girl has died after the car she was travelling in was hit by an oncoming train at a level crossing in Styria on Wednesday evening. The 20-year-old driver of the car survived with serious...

The Council of Europe has urged Austria to step up the fight against child trafficking. A report issued on Monday said that Austria had made progress in the fight against human trafficking but that more...

A total of 12,220 people entered eastern Austria in the previous 36 hours as the flow of refugees from the Balkans to northern Europe continued, police said on Monday. On Sunday, 8,540 people entered...

According to the latest projections the centre-left SPÖ has won the Vienna state election but the far-right Freedom Party has made significant gains and recorded its best ever result in the capital. The...

The Czech Republic will increase the number of random checks on its border with Austria starting this weekend, the interior ministry said in a statement. Checks will now be performed on 20 instead of...

Police have identified one of the victims found in the burnt out premises of an empty building in Favoriten, Vienna on Friday. The man was a Slovakian whose fingerprints were held on a police database...

Vienna police announced this week that they have arrested 18 suspected members of a drug ring, along with the seizure of several kilograms of illicit drugs. The drugs found during a search included 3.9...

Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner has warned that force may be necessary to ease a backlog of refugees if Germany decides to no longer let them enter via its border with Austria. However,...

This weekend’s state elections in Upper Austria have seen a significant drop in support for the coalition-ruling Christian Democrats, with an almost doubling of seats for the Freedom Party. The...

Austria was bracing for an influx of 10,000 migrants on Saturday, as Europe’s increasingly divided countries stepped up efforts to push the wave of desperate humanity on to their neighbours. In...